I miss when we used to argue

Hi everyone, I’m Alice. I’ve been in Cosmos since 2019, I’ve worked with a bunch of teams across the ecosystem over the years, and I just want to say something plainly for once instead of dressing it up. I think something’s broken here, and we’re all just quietly stepping around it. Part of it is governance itself. The vote happens on-chain, permanent, transparent, no argument there. But everything that actually shapes that vote lives across the forum, Telegram, private DM;s, Reddit, Twitter, (I refuse to call it X) Discord, scattered everywhere, none of it built to last. Go back and try to understand why a proposal from a year or two ago actually passed, and half the time the reasoning behind it is just gone. The outcome is preserved forever. The thinking that got us there isn’t. But honestly, the governance mechanics are only half of what’s been sitting with me lately. The other half is us. The community. What we’ve become versus what we used to be. What it used to feel like… Five, six years ago, proposals used to bring people out swinging. Threads ran for days, People argued, actually argued. It wasn’t clear or polite half the time, but it was alive. You could feel that…

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I agree that keeping more conversations public would help. When discussions are spread across different apps and private chats, it becomes difficult for regular users to understand why certain decisions were made. Even respectful disagreement is valuable when people can find and learn from it later.

Can’t disagree with this. We need more constructive criticism from both sides. We got a lot to fix within community.